Extra teaching hours bring major income
In big cities, nearly all teachers of primary and secondary schools give extra teaching at private tutoring classes. In the past, the classes were located at education centers. However, nowadays, teachers open the classes right at their homes, which allows them not to have to share profits with others.
It’s easy to attract students to private tutoring classes nowadays, because nearly all the students want to go to extra classes after the school hours. Even those, who do not want to attend the classes, also have to attend the tutoring lessons provided by their teachers, or they would receive bad marks for school works.
A parent whose son is going to a school in Dong Da district said that 2/3 of the students in his son’s class go to the private class run by their school teacher. Every student has to pay 60,000 dong for every teaching hour, or 120,000 a week. As such, with the current number of students, the teacher can earn 20 million dong a month from the private tutoring classes.
In Thanh Oai district in the suburbs of Hanoi, a secondary school teacher said that the students of the school have 4 private tutoring hours a week, for which they had to pay 200,000. On average, a class comprises of 30 students, and a teacher has two teaching shift a day. This means that a teacher can earn 30 million dong a month.
Meanwhile, in Vietnam, a monthly income of 10 million dong would be considered “high income.”
The tuitions would be much higher if students want specific tutoring hours. Thu, a parent in Cau Giay district, said that her second grade son last year learned with a teacher who demanded 100,000 dong per teaching hour. As the class had fewer students than other normal classes, the tuition per student was higher.
Hundreds of millions of dong in income for general school teachers
Every year, thousands of students in big cities attend the entrance exams to prestigious schools, such as the Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted, the High School for the Gifted under the Hanoi University for Natural Sciences, Luong The Vinh, Marie Curie high schools.
In order to prepare for the entrance exams, all the students have to attend the extra classes where they can learn with qualified teachers and pay sky high tuitions.
The Hanoi-Amsterdam High School for the Gifted is the targeted school for many students in Hanoi. Therefore, the teachers of the school are considered “branded teachers,” whose classes are always full of students.
A student of the school said that the tuitions demanded by the school’s teachers are “reasonable”. She has to pay 500,000 dong a month for 12 mathematics teaching hours. Besides, she also attends other classes, which costs her 1.5 million dong in total for extra lessons.
“All the teachers at my school give private tutoring classes. They do not have weekends,” she said.
It is estimated that a branded teacher can earn 50-60 million dong a month, if he has a busy weekly teaching schedule, from Monday to Saturday, with 4 teaching shifts a day. Meanwhile, less prestigious teachers can also earn hundreds of millions of dong a year.
Phong Dang – Minh Hien
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